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Install Problm (compile error)

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Created on: Aug 19, 2008 7:54 PM by AKI0715 - Last Modified:  Aug 19, 2008 8:01 PM by Guest

I am now installing Vmware workstation (VMware-workstation-6.0.4-93057.x86_64.tar.gz). And I got the following error message.

Please tell me to resolve the error.


Building the vmmon module.

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.26.2/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.26.2'
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:197: error: unknown field ‘nopage’ specified in initializer
/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:198: Warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o]Error1
make[1]: *** _module_/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only Error 2
make[1]: Leaving `/usr/src/linux-2.6.26.2'
make: *** http://vmmon.ko Error 2
make:Leaving `/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only'
Unable to build the vmmon module.

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